oh yeah I’m sure there’s stuff like that - people like to tell stories with science props, but the relationship between various well-being measures and intelligence measures seems inconsistent but usually pretty positive to the extent that you get a signal in a large sample
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terman’s termites is probably the biggest one for that? but lots of criticism as to how much its dubious findings generalize, of which cases there are of course many such
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Replying to @ctbeiser @natal_female
there is DEFINITELY the possibility that extremely high intelligence people are fucked up, and that it’s hard to prove because there are so few of them, but I haven’t seen anything really convincing one way or the other
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Startlingly little research seems to have been done on very smart people. I sometimes wonder why. Maybe prospective researchers suspect outcomes would be too uncomfortable and it’s de facto taboo
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana and
By definition, there's not a lot, and presumably many would rather do something else with their time. "Wanted: 180 IQ individuals to answer boring questionnaires, $20 / hour" is not a compelling pitch.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @literalbanana and
Well I would think very high IQ people would be curious enough about the subject to be willing to contribute? Although I find myself peculiarly incurious. (IQ nowhere near 180 but still in the rare zone)
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Replying to @Meaningness @michael_nielsen and
I like the idea of both animal & human research where part of your job is to make the experiment entertaining enough that subjects flock to participate
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Replying to @literalbanana @Meaningness and
don't mind me, I'm over here still giggling at "lead bimbofication"
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I was going to ask what that meant but wondered if it was going to be embarrassing
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chrysanthemum Retweeted chrysanthemum
This is the tweet that made me think about the topic https://twitter.com/natal_female/status/1263751826895261697?s=21 …https://twitter.com/natal_female/status/1263751826895261697 …
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Replying to @natal_female @sonyasupposedly and
Oh!! I read “lead” as in “leader” not as in Pb
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